History Characters / Deathstroke

* He was one of the major villains in ''WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman'' (voiced by Creator/RobinAtkinDownes)

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: During Rose Wilson's time with the Teen Titans, her relationship with her team mates is strained. Rose has the most antagonistic relationship with Wonder Girl. Sadly, even when it appears that Rose is making peace with Wonder Girl, Cassandra revealed she still dislikes her and does not trust her. Another example is when Rose befriends another teammate like Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes), only for Jaime to revealed (thankfully not to her) that he is afraid of her. Even when she saves the team, such as during the Battle for Bludhaven, they usually call her out for her methods rather than thank her for the rescue. The only friend she has on the team is Kid Devil / Red Devil (Eddie Bloomberg). It gets so bad she quits the team. When Rose considers coming back on the team, they vote on whether to let her back in, while letting Bombshell (Amy Sue Allen), who betrayed and tried to kill them, back on the team. Ironically, Bombshell framed Rose as the one who betrayed the Teen Titans. As Rose points out, it's telling that they let a former traitor back on the team, something even Bombshell acknowledges, pointing out that if they give her a chance, Rose deserves the same chance. After an altercation with Bombshell, staged to ensure her loyalty to the team, Rose leaves to find her own way in life.
** Gets better with the last incarnation of the Teen Titans before ''[[ComicBook/New52 The New 52]]'' where she was on good terms with most members, especially Superboy and Damian.
*** Even her relationships with Tim and Cassie somewhat improved. Tim was genuinely happy to seeing her again when they reunited after a long time. Meanwhile in Cassie's case, they managed to ''mostly'' avoid their previously constant bickering. 

* RoguesGalleryTransplant: Slade started out as a Teen Titans rogue, turned towards antiheroism, and then became (after ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'') a sort of generic Franchise/DCUniverse villain, being as much of a dick to as many superheroes as he could manage. It should be noted that he's never let go of his grudge against the Titans since he never completed his contract against them (a bit of a blow to his merc cred). He even went so far as to harass Damian Wayne, his Arch-Enemy Nightwing's protege.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Rose and Cassie can generally work together during missions, despite their constant bickering.

* FamilyOfChoice: Sees Titans Tower as her home and the Titans as her family, even though to most of her teammates, she is TheFriendNobodyLikes.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: During Rose Wilson's time with the Teen Titans, her relationship with her team mates is strained. Rose has the most antagonistic relationship with Wonder Girl (Cassandra "Cassie" Sandsmark). Sadly, even when it appears that Rose is making peace with Wonder Girl, Cassandra revealed she still dislikes her and does not trust her. Another example is when Rose befriends another teammate like Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes), only for Jaime to revealed (thankfully not to her) that he is afraid of her. The only friend she has on the team is Kid Devil / Red Devil (Eddie Bloomberg). It gets so bad she quits the team. When Rose considers coming back on the team, they vote on whether to let her back in, while letting Bombshell (Amy Sue Allen), who betrayed and tried to kill them, back on the team. Ironically, Bombshell framed Rose as the one who betrayed the Teen Titans. As Rose points out, it's telling that they let a former traitor back on the team, something even Bombshell acknowledges, pointing out that if they give her a chance, Rose deserves the same chance. After an altercation with Bombshell, staged to ensure her loyalty to the team, Rose leaves to find her own way in life.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: During Rose Wilson's time with the Teen Titans, her relationship with her team mates is strained. Rose has the most antagonistic relationship with Wonder Girl (Cassandra "Cassie" Sandsmark). Sadly, even when it appears that Rose is making peace with Wonder Girl, Cassandra revealed she still dislikes her and does not trust her. Another example is when Rose befriends another team mate like Blue Beetle (Jaime Reyes), only for Jaime to revealed (thankfully not to her) that he is afraid of her. The only friend she has on the team is Kid Devil / Red Devil (Eddie Bloomberg). It gets so bad she quits the team. When Rose considers coming back on the team, they vote on whether to let her back in, while letting Bombshell (Amy Sue Allen), who betrayed and tried to kill them, back on the team. Ironically, Bombshell framed Rose as the one who betrayed the Teen Titans. As Rose points out, it's telling that they let a former traitor back on the team, something even Bombshell acknowledges, pointing out that if they give her a chance, Rose deserves the same chance. After an altercation with Bombshell, staged to ensure her loyalty to the team, Rose leaves to find her own way in life.

* HatesTheirParent: Zig-zagged, surprisingly. Considering he used a PsychoSerum to make her BrainwashedAndCrazy screwing up her life even after she was freed from his control, she justifiably spent a long time hating him and trying to track him down to kill him. But when she finally did, they were interrupted by Black Lanterns. When they were about to kill Slade, she couldn't let him die after all and fights with him. As seen through the eyes of the Black Lanterns, she still felt love for him. In the end, while she decides not to hunt him down anymore, she still openly resents him and decides to [[YoureNotMyFather cut him out of her life completely.]]

* LegacyCharacter: She is the fourth character with this name. Ravager was originally the alter-ego of another Deathstroke's son, Grant Wilson ,while working as a mercenary for H.I.V.E. assigned to kill the Teen Titans until his death. Bill Walsh, a terrorist responsible for slitting Jericho's throat as a child, later used the identity to attack Deathstroke by taking advantage of his vulnerability. Slade's half-brother Wade La Farge also used the identity to target him, although he was later killed for this.

* UnableToCry: A literal example. After the end of her [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Brainwashed And Crazy-phase]], Rose is rarely shown grieving. Rather, she usually does something else like play with her phone or go skinny dipping. Even the times she DOES show to be affected by someone's death [[spoiler: namely when trying to comfort Red Arrow at his daughters funeral]], she is not shown shedding a single tear. While at first, this comes off as a {{Jerkass}} trait, the first issue of ''ComicBook/BlackestNight: Titans'' reveals that she is simply unable to healthily cope thus doing her best to ignore the grief instead.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Before Deathstroke [[BrainwashedAndCrazy drugged her into villainy]], she used to be a fairly normal, sweet girl even serving as Arsenal's daughter's caretaker in ''ComicBook/Titans'' Volume 1.

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: While still complicated, Rose and Slade's relationship is more stable in ''Rebirth'' compared to her Pre-Flashpoint version. While she still likes doing things to piss Slade off like marrying his former tech-guy, she no longer HatesTheirParent showing multiple times that she loves and cares for him and wants him in her life.

* ContinuitySnarl: Along with all of the Wilson family, her ComicBook/New52 history was ''very'' unstable. Initially, it was said that Adeline was her mother and she works for an organisation called N.O.W.H.E.R.E. as part of a ''group'' called the Ravagers. She makes little mention of this when she later shows up in the second ''Deathstroke'' series. The ''Rebirth'' series specifically says Lillian Worth is once again her mother, and presents an entirely different backstory for her, aside from being Slade's daughter.

* NinetyPercentOfYourBrain: Slade had this as one of his powers (though it's not stated outright in the series, only the comics). Later retconned in saying that his grey matter got re-routed and reprogrammed, allowing him to use his brain in various ways that regular humans do not.

* AxCrazy: In the ComicBook/{{New 52}} she starts this way and stayed it for a long time.

* ContinuitySnarl: Along with all of the Wilson family, her New 52 history was ''very'' unstable. Initially, it was said that Adeline was her mother and she works for an organisation called N.O.W.H.E.R.E. as part of a ''group'' called the Ravagers. She makes little mention of this when she later shows up in the second ''Deathstroke'' series. The ''Rebirth'' series specifically says Lillian Worth is once again her mother, and presents an entirely different backstory for her, aside from being Slade's daughter.

* RaceLift: Her mixed heritage was erased in the New 52 after DC made her Adeline Kane's daughter instead of Lilian Worth's. Following Rebirth, Lillian was her mom again and Rose's mixed ethnicity restored.

* UnableToCry: A literal example. After the end of her [[BrainwashedAndCrazy]]-phase, Rose is rarely shown grieving. Rather, she usually does something else like play with her phone or go skinny dipping. Even the times she DOES show to be affected by someone's death [[spoiler: namely when trying to comfort Red Arrow at his daughters funeral]], she is not shown shedding a single tear. While at first, this comes off as a {{Jerkass}} trait, the first issue of ''ComicBook/BlackestNight: Titans'' reveals that she is simply unable to healthily cope thus doing her best to ignore the grief instead.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Despite der AdaptationalVillainy, she still insists on saving a town of people in issue 8 of ''ComicBook/TheRavagers'' and then lets the Ravagers escape, despite knowing her boss would kill her for that. Much to her partner Warblade's disapproval.

* Tsundere: Starting in ''Rebirth''. This version of the character is a lot more calmer than the previous two but will still get quite aggressive when feeling wronged.

* HiredGuns:

* Anti-Hero: The ''Rebirth'' version started out as a [[KnightInSourArmour Type II]], as, while not exactly being a hero, she has been shown not to be one to kill her enemies, as Shado lampshaded. This changed later during the ''Lazarus Tournement'' arc in the ComicBook/Robin2021 comic as well as after she joined Stormwatch where she would reverte back to a [[PragmaticHero Type III]], though still not as strongly as pre-Flashpoint.

* AntiHero: Strongly Type III.

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* The animated series ''WesternAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls2019'', voiced by Creator/DCDouglas.

* EvilSoundsDeep: He's been voiced by Creator/RonPerlman and Creator/FredTatasciore. And played by Manu Bennett, which made him sound very much like a BadassBaritone.

* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Particularly under Creator/ChristopherPriest's pen. For all Slade's pretensions of being a NobleDemon and love for his family, it doesn't change the fact he's an amoral, manipulative, and all-around selfish monster who inevitably hurts the people around him through his cruelty.

* PetTheDog: After he's let out of prison, Beast Boy challenges him to a DuelToTheDeath and is on the verge of JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope. Slade knows Beast Boy blames him for Terra's death and betrayal...and goes to meet him anyway. Wintergreen begs him not to because he knows it won't end well. Deathstroke ignores Wintergreen and shows up unarmed, challenging Beast Boy to strike him down. Gar ends up being unable to do it because he can't attack a defenseless man and is mad at himself for not being a killer. Slade then treats him to breakfast and talks him through his understandable anger and grief; while it's not cool that Slade scapegoated Terra, he tells Beast Boy that revenge helps no one in the long run and the kid shouldn't throw his life away for a dead girl.

* CampStraight: Is a sensitive artist who was almost also homosexual, but his creators decided against it in fear of fueling the sensitive artsy gay stereotype. Jericho was instead shown to be a ladies' man and had romantic ties with Raven and Kole.

* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Deathstroke pulls this in the X-Men/Teen Titand crossover "Apokolips...Now." He's overseeing construction of a psi-phon, a device to absorb Phoenix's residual power when a cigar appears and its smoker asks for a light. While taking a fraction of a second taking a swing at the smoker (Wolverine, whom he misses), Deathstroke says:

* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Deathstroke pulls this in the X-Men/Teen Titand crossover "Apokolips...Now." He's overseeingconstruction of a psi-phon, a device to absorb Phoenix's residual power when a cigar appears and its smoker asks for a light. While taking a fraction of a second taking a swing at the smoker (Wolverine, whom he misses), Deathstroke says:

* AwesomeMcCoolname: His actual name is Slade Wilson. Deathstroke the Terminator is his ''nom de guerre''.

* DiminishingVillainThreat: He hasn't decayed into an easy-to-defeat villain all across the board but for certain BadassNormal heroes, particularly Batman and Nightwing, he's no longer a nightmare opponent who can easily manhandle them like in the early years, particularly during his first fight against Batman where Deathstroke relentlessly beat Bruce unconscious. Thanks for ongoing PowerCreepPowerSeep, heroes like Batman or Nightwing have gotten to the point where they can defeat Deathstroke after an intense fight, stalemate Deathstroke while getting in equal or more hits, or in some cases, completely embarrass Slade by taking him out easily in a span of a page, like Batman once did when he [[ConservationOfNinjitsu attacked and defeated Deathstroke and Deadshot together]].